'04 after game 7....I had a bunch of Aussie hitchhikers we'd met in BC come to Calgary and we all went to the 'Dome for Game 7. Awful feeling afterwards and I simply couldn't bear to watch the Cup presentation. We went out to the Executive Flight Centre at around 3 am to see the players arrive - very sad! Most hid in their cars/SUVs and didn't want to be seen. Commodore though was out in the crowd (there were maybe 100 of us there) and signed everyone's autograph who wanted one. Looked beat.
That was followed by the wonderful party for the team that lost at Olympic Plaza a few days later. But a hollow empty feeling it was. Many tears. Gut-wrenching.
Then again, it wasn't life. "Just" sports.
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